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With $65 million, the World Bank is to support Ghana's Youth Enterprise Development Project, an initiative of the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP), as was announced by the Ghanaian government on December 8.

More than 1 million youth are to benefit from the project, which focusses mainly on Agriculture, ICT, housing and related businesses. Also, 1140 youth businesses will be supported.

According to the Minister of Youth and Sports, in the course of 2011, 10 Youth leadership and Skills Training institutes have already benefited from the School Connectivity Project sponsored by the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communication (GIFEC).

Additionally, the Minister stated that the International Youth Day, the International Day of the Volunteers, the African Youth Day, and the National Youth for Peace Camp were celebrated to create awareness among the youth and create solidarity amongst the youth of Ghana.

Interested? Read the whole article here!

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Nawsheen Hosenally attended the PAEPARD Agricultural Innovation Facilitators' Workshop held in Uganda, November 28 - December 2.

Here, she got the opportunity to meet professionals with many years of experience from research, farmer organisations, NGOs and other consultants from 11 African countries (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote D'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Burundi, Cameroon, Mauritius, Sierra Leone, DRC, Uganda).


On November 25, CrowdOutAIDS published an article called 'We Cannot Talk about Youth Leadership without Youth Leaders'.

They describe the outcomes of an online survey about strategy of UN when working with young people.

YPARD also thinks this is an important issue. Whether in the context of an AIDS programme or our work in ARD, it is crucial to think what role we as young professionals can play as leaders!

The article starts with the key principles:

"When we asked what key principles that should be respected when UN works with young people, participants shared that it’s important for UN to share power with young people, so they can have equal partnership with UN agencies. To achieve this, it would be critical for UN to provide continuous support to young people to do their work. But at the same time, UN shouldn’t interfere too much details into young people’s work. Should give enough space for young people to engage with their capacities."

Interested? Read more about the outcomes here. 


The CTA’s ARDYIS Project and its partners are proud to announce that public evaluation is now open for the “Youth in Agriculture Blog Competition” (YoBloCo Awards)!


Out of >90 entries, 36 blogs were shortlisted for the Individual Category and 16 blogs for the Institutional Category. [See the list of eligible blogs here]

There are two different processes for the two categories.


The UNDP posted a story about their work in Kingston, Jamaica, where they gave training to young and unemployed women and men in the poorer parts of Jamaica to increase their agriculture and food production skills to boost their job opportunities in local farming and agro-industries.


'(...) the young people have learned how to process fruit and vegetable juice, herbs and ginger powder to produce dried fruit, jams, sorrel, meat and honey. "This project provides not only technical knowledge and training, but facilities and equipment that would have been difficult or impossible for them to do otherwise,” said Machel Stewart, UNDP Poverty Programme Advisor.'

The project is a collaboration of the UNDP with with the National Centre for Youth Development, the Rural Agricultural Development Authority and national youth organizations. It is implemented by Jamaica’s Scientific Research Council and funded by UNDP and the United States Agency for International Development

Interested? Read more about this and the other activities in the whole article.


On November 27, CrowdOutAIDS published an article on the involvement of young people in UNAIDS, asking for opinions on the statement that young people might not want to be involved in projects if they don't see their interest.

YPARD thinks that what is pertinent for involvement of the youth in global development is as well for the youth involvement for ARD.

Quote from one of the discussion participants:
“Adults with serious faces cannot be effective communicators for young people, even if they are trying to translate best practices. And the reason why is that young people have ambitions, want to participate, influence, make decisions and feel their significance.”

What do you think? Read the article and express your opinion and join the CrowdOutAIDS discussion..
... or even better, start a discussion on the YPARD Forum!


The Wisconsin Ag Connection (USA) published an article called "Molepske Introduces Wisconsin Ag Corps Legislation" (November 2).

It is about a legislation that would help to create new agricultural jobs for young people who are not familiar with agricultural work.

"Louis Molepske introduced the Wisconsin Agriculture Corps bill as part of the 'Make Wisconsin Work' jobs package. Modeled after the Wisconsin Conservation Corps, the Ag corps would help connect local youths with farm work and farm life in Wisconsin."

Interested? Read the whole article on the website of the Wisconsin Ag Connection.

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